The German government agreed to significantly expand its funding of home care for infirm Holocaust survivors and relax eligibility criteria for restitution programs to include Jews who spent time in so-called open ghettos. More ▸

BERLIN (JTA) — Hans Lipschis, reportedly one of the 10 most wanted Nazis, was arrested in Germany. Lipschis, 93, of Aalen is facing charges of complicity in murder as a former guard at the Auschwitz extermination camp. He was arrested on Monday. According to German news reports, state prosecutors in Stuttgart are preparing an indictment… More ▸

Germany passing legislation to protect male circumcision for religious purposes affirmed the rights of religious minorities, writes an American Jewish Committee official there, but the debate is likely to continue — in Germany and Europe. More ▸